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Chromium pentafluoride is the inorganic compound with the chemical formula CrF5.[3] It is a red volatile solid that melts at 34 °C.[1] It is the highest known chromium fluoride, since the hypothetical chromium hexafluoride has not yet been synthesized.[4]

Chromium pentafluoride is one of the products of the action of fluorine on a mixture of potassium and chromic chlorides.[5]

In terms of its structure, the compound is a one-dimensional coordination polymer. Each Cr(V) center has octahedral molecular geometry.[2] It has the same crystal structure as vanadium pentafluoride.[6]

Chromium pentafluoride is strongly oxidizing, able to fluorinate the noble gas xenon and oxidize dioxygen to dioxygenyl.[2] Due to this property, it decomposes readily in the presence of reducing agents, and easily hydrolyses to chromium(III) and chromium(VI).[7]

Reactions

Chromium pentafluoride can react with Lewis bases such as caesium fluoride and nitryl fluoride to give the respective hexafluorochromate(V) salt.[8]

CrF5 + CsF → CsCrF6

Chromium pentafluoride can also react with the Lewis acid antimony pentafluoride to give the CrF5·2SbF5 adduct. The adduct was found to be a strong oxidizing agent, liquid at room temperature with a melting point of −23 °C.[8]

See also

References

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  3. ^ Jacques Guertin; James A. Jacobs; Cynthia P. Avakian, eds. (2004). Chromium(VI) Handbook. CRC Press. p. 30. ISBN 9780203487969.
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  7. ^ Amit Aora (2005). Text Book Of Inorganic Chemistry. Discovery Publishing House. p. 649.
  8. ^ a b Brown, S. D.; Loehr, T. M.; Gard, G. L. (1976). "The Chemistry of chromium pentafluoride II. Reaction with inorganic systems". Journal of Fluorine Chemistry. 7 (1): 19–32. doi:10.1016/S0022-1139(00)83979-2. ISSN 0022-1139.